Singel Serenade – Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
musical ode, water concert, festival start
The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, performing in small boats sailing around the Singel, presents a musical ode to Utrecht’s historic canals.
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The Garden – Asko|Schönberg & Slagwerk Den Haag
world premiere, political statement
A song cycle for voice and ensemble with annotations, commentary and illustrations by Richard Ayres, commissioned by Asko|Schönberg and London Sinfonietta.
Club Fluxus: Temko plays Terry Riley
newly built instruments, new series, informal
A programme based around the seldom performed work Shri Camel by Terry Riley, composed in ‘just intonation’ and originally for synthesizer.
Late Night – Nikel Ensemble
ensemble in residence, world premiere, rock music analyzed
The Viennese Nikel Ensemble blends electronic and acoustic sounds in an exciting programme with works by Kuo, Poppe en Thurley.
Lunchtime concert: Tera de Marez Oyens Award 2018
young talent, conservatory
Lunchtime concert is devoted entirely to Tera de Marez Oyens Award for composition students who graduated from Dutch conservatories in 2016/17 and 2017/18.
New Music Course
context programme, 20 years of contemporary music
In this course musicologist Thea Derks gives you an overview of the composed music of the last twenty years.
Me, Peer Gynt – Maya Fridman & Tomoko Mukaiyama
cello & piano, cross disciplinary performance, new dimension
Cellist Maya Fridman is a young music pioneer who’s bursting with ambition. She dares to pull out all the stops with her arrangement of Schnittke’s Peer Gynt.
Dream Work – Nikel Ensemble
ensemble in residence, film music, film with live music
Four special compositions for the splendid, surrealistic black and white collage films of the Austrian avant-garde filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky.
Akasha – Rosa Ensemble
Hypnotizing, spatial concert, challenging music
Akasha is a production in which music, stories and memories merge to create an enchanting performance.
Transcendent or immanent – Ensemble Variances
meditative concert, contemplative journey, metaphysics
Ensemble Variances plays works by composers who have found inspiration in nature, the cosmos, ancient Indian practices and religious images.
Escape – Saskia Lankhoorn
piano solo, relaxing, escapism
Pianist Saskia Lankhoorn helps you escape the everyday hustle and bustle with works by Strahovnik, Languillat, Heera en De Marez Oyens.
While we are Both – Insomnio
Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2018, guitar, nominated work, wonderment
The Utrecht based ensemble Insomnio opens our festival Saturday with, among other works, ‘confluence/divergence’ by Sebastian Hilli.
Gaudeamus Saturday Night
choice stress, festival in a festival, from noise to minimal
An evening devoted to the newest music in all its guises: from wrenching, edgy minimal music to experimental electronics!
Present and Past – New European Ensemble
Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2018, Goebajdoelina, musical treasure room, acid house
A wonderful journey from the South-American music genre Milonga via Bach to acid house and John Coltrane.
Black MIDI – Stargaze & Uitreiking Gaudeamus Award 2018
closing concert, glitches, Smile
Stargaze plays ‘Black MIDI’, the newest work by Nicole Lizée. The concert concludes with the presentation of the renowned Gaudeamus Award.
Club Fluxus: Jesse Passenier & The Fluid Orchestra
The young composer Jesse Passenier operates on the frontier between classical music and jazz. Think of Ligeti, Ravel, big band, jazz, lyrical melodies and colourful harmonies!
Club Fluxus: Diamanda Dramm – Violin Spaces
Viola Spaces by Garth Knox is a household name in the field of contemporary music for viola. Together with Diamanda Dramm he composed Violin Spaces, a sequel to Viola Spaces: a series of concert studies for solo violin.
Club Fluxus: Kluster5 – Dutch Focus
Kluster5 is a young ensemble based in The Hague that produces a unique, modern sound which is particularly evident in new works written especially for the ensemble.
Club Fluxus: But What About – Disrupted Transmissions
Disrupted Transmissions is the title of the programme devised by ensemble But What About (BWA) in collaboration with singer/composer Aurélie Lierman.
Club Fluxus: Oerknal! speelt Clara Iannotta
Ensemble Oerknal! is placing Italian composer Clara Iannotta in the limelight. In this lively programme, Oerknal! places her uncompromising work alongside music from the Renaissance and other sources of inspiration.